The EU has ten options for Israeli punishment for Benjamin Netanyahu genocide in gas. Although they are all complicated for execution, because they require unanimity or a qualified majority, it is difficult to achieve in the council before the equidistant of a large number of countries, including Germany, with Tel Aviv, foreign ministers will solve this issue at the next Tuesday. The high representative, Kaja Callas, will put on his table a document with ten alternatives, starting from the general suspension of a commercial agreement to suspension of Israeli participation in such programs as Erasmus+ or Horizon, after the EU concluded that the “instructions” about the violation of human rights after the murder of more than 55,000 gazate since 2023.
The document that Reuters promoted and to which had access to Eldiario.es is a kind of “margin” of measures that can be adopted as part of the Agreement of the EU Israeli, which 27 decided to consider for a terrible humanitarian situation in a gas series. Nevertheless, a large number of member states sought to simply increase the pressure on Netanyahu, and it is still unknown if any measure is accepted. In fact, Callas led to possible sanctions in the development of the situation, as soon as it establishes the “dialogue” with the Israeli authorities after the conclusions of the analysis developed on Earth by international organizations.
As part of these conversations, the EU announced an agreement with Tel Aviv, so that between humanitarian aid in Gaza. Just five days before foreign ministers should study possible actions to violate the Association Agreement for Violation of Human Rights.
The greatest punishment for Israel will be the complete suspension of this agreement on this association, but requires the unanimity of the member states and is unattainable. As the second option, there will be a partial suspension of the agreement, and there the commercial part can be canceled. It can also be carried out at the suggestion of the European Commission and with a qualified majority of member states (15 countries that represent at least 65% of the European population), after passing through the Association Council in which Israel is located. No one introduces this scenario at this time.
The third option is to leave Israel without participating in some European programs, to which it has access from signing the protocol in 2008. Among which it is canceled to include the purpose of Erasmus + or Horizon, which are innovative projects from which companies in this country benefit. This option will also require the unanimity of European countries. It also establishes a potential restriction of benefits from means for technological and scientific development.
The fourth opportunity provided by the document is the suspension of cooperation at the technical level. This would be more believable, since it does not require any votes except the political will of the EU, which can freeze or not to fulfill new protocols or memorandums about understanding with this country.
The country can offer an embargo for weapons
As part of the security policy, the range of measures provided for by the document varies: from the authorization of ministers who torpedo the decision of the two states (which were currently in a bucket in the EU, although such countries as the United Kingdom made it) to increase the weapon embargo in the EU. The procedure will pass through the European country to offer it to others, but everyone should agree. Spain or France raised this, but not officially.
Also, the prevention of trade with occupied Palestinian territories is another option. I will also need a qualified majority. A dozen countries have already positioned itself in favor of this measure, although they are not enough.
Two other options that Callas put on the table is a restriction of free visas for circulation for Israeli citizens, as well as suspend the International Aviation Agreement.
